Celebrate our tenth anniversary with the biggest issue we’ve ever made. FLOOD 13 is deluxe, 252-page commemorative edition—a collectible, coffee-table-style volume in a 12″ x 12″ format—packed with dynamic graphic design, stunning photography and artwork, and dozens of amazing artists representing the past, present, and future of FLOOD’s editorial spectrum, while also looking back at key moments and events in our history. Inside, you’ll find in-depth cover stories on Gorillaz and Magdalena Bay, plus interviews with Mac DeMarco, Lord Huron, Wolf Alice, Norman Reedus, The Zombies, Nation of Language, Bootsy Collins, Fred Armisen, Jazz Is Dead, Automatic, Rocket, and many more.
Charli XCX, Music, Fashion, Film
The pop star’s guitar-strewn reset is the stuff of savage, searing power-pop with primal, minimalist rhythms and a hint of sleek, sizzling electronics.
The Strokes, Reality Awaits
With their first album in six years, the influential garage rockers have defiantly moved on from slacker apathy in favor of a synthier era defined by an unexpected foray into the political.
Mojave 3, Mojave 3: 1995-2006
The Slowdive offshoot’s five melancholic LPs were remastered to more clearly express Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead’s vision of hillbilly heartache and dustbowl romanticism.
Margaret Farrell
The six-song project follows last year’s No Rules Sandy LP.
The LA hardcore group’s forthcoming debut album Life Under the Gun is out June 23 via Loma Vista.
It’s his first single since 2020’s NO DREAM.
The Ballad of Darren is out July 21 via Parlophone.
Smith makes good on the promise of 2021’s Be Right Back LP with its follow-up arriving September 29 via FAMM.
Her debut album is projected to arrive later this year.
The follow-up to 2017’s Mellow Waves is out June 28 via Warner Music Japan.
Returning for the first time since its 2018 debut, the event will take place September 15 and 16 at Cincinnati’s ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park.
Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is out July 7 via Secretly Canadian.
Spoon
The three-track collection featuring songs from the Lucifer on the Sofa sessions is out June 13 via Matador.
Blondshell will be opening the month-long US tour kicking off in November.
Caroline Polachek
The music and internet-culture festival will take place in Idyllwild, California the weekend of August 4.
Additionally featuring a visual for recent single “Don’t Let the Devil,” the film honors Mike’s late mother.
In Times New Roman…, their first LP in six years, is out June 16 via Matador.
It’s Monét’s second single of the year, following the Lucky Daye collaboration “Smoke.”
It’s the third single from their LP Girl with Fish, out June 9 via Saddle Creek.
Her fifth solo album Joy’All is out June 9.
The duo’s Matador Records debut Everyone’s Crushed is out May 26.
The other half of Melodies on Hiatus, the guitarist’s fifth solo album, is out June 23 via Red Bull Records.
